KARACHI- A three-day yearly Cyber Security convention that is taking place from July 26 to 28, is being regarded as the most smashing, exhilarating computer and cyber security event to have ever taken place in Pakistan.
Local Hotel, which is where the event was organised, hardly survived PAKCON 3rd.Renowned security consultants and security professionals from various high-profile organisations and security firms presented papers and entertained and bamboozled the audience with their talks on various aspects of computer security.
Speakers presented their materials on Two-factor Authentication, Plugging your Data Leaks, Enterprise Security Monitoring Visualized, Securing your Wireless Network, Prosecuting Hackers, Web Application Worms, Win32 Exploitation, Masquerading as Trustworthy, How Attackers go Undetected, and more.
Faiz Ahmad Shuja, president of PAKCON and CEO of Rewterz, talked about Enterprise Security Monitoring. Ahmad Elkhatib from Pointsec, UAE talked about Data Leaks. A professor from American University of Sharjah, Dr. Fadi Aloul, talked about Securing Wireless Networks.
Tan Tiek Guan from Data Security Systems, Singapore talked about Two-factor Authentication. Pakistan based security researchers, Muhammad Omar Khan talked about Web Application Worms and Muhammad Ahmed Siddiqui talked about Win32 Exploitation.
Members from Pakistan Honeynet Project, Syed Jahanzaib Sarfaraz talked about Botnets and Ayaz Ahmed Khan talked about How Attackers go Undetected.
“Our goal as an organisation is to explore all field of information security technology in an innovative style with liberal attitude in a freethinking environment. We intend to curb all the threats by developing a sound and effective information security plans.
Our strategy is of a bold nature, instead of hiding our face from the reality of the situation, we are willing to confront all the dangers facing the IT community and provide them definite resolutions.” said Faiz Ahmad Shuja,
president PAKCON.
“We deal exclusively in bringing into limelight the issues related with information security and create awareness of them among the IT community as well as the masses. The greatest cause of concern for PAKCON is the lack of focus and negligence towards information security issues in Pakistan in the IT sector at the higher levels.
The mainstream media that has started to cover the activities of the IT sector to a great extent is still mute in giving appropriate coverage to computer security issues. This is the reason we have come forward to take a dynamic step in order to fulfil all the inadequacies in the field of information security,” he added.
In future, PAKCON will keep arranging briefing, training, and competition sessions to raise information security awareness in Pakistan and keep nation updated with latest information security technologies.
Source: The Nation
Date:7/27/2007
